Re: Database file copy

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue ene 13 00:05:53 -0300 2011:
> > Srini Raghavan wrote:
> > > Thank you very much for reviewing, appreciate the feedback.? As pointed out by
> > > you, it is always best to test it out with the latest version, so, I tested the
> > > same approach with postgres 9.0.2 on windows just now, and it works!
> > >
> > >
> > > I forgot to mention earlier that in addition to setting vacuum_freeze_table_age
> > > to 0, vacuum_freeze_min_age must also be set to 0 to reset xmin with the
> > > FrozenXid.
> >
> > I wonder if you should be using VACUUM FREEZE instead of having to set
> > variables.
>
> The documentation says you shouldn't:
>
> FREEZE
> Selects aggressive "freezing" of tuples. Specifying FREEZE is equivalent to
> performing VACUUM with the vacuum_freeze_min_age parameter set to zero. The
> FREEZE option is deprecated and will be removed in a future release; set the
> parameter instead.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-vacuum.html

I didn't know that. I added the -z(freeze) option to vacuumdb in 8.4
for use by pg_upgrade.

I think the original idea was that people should never need to freeze
anything, but it turns out pg_upgrade and this user need it so maybe
depricating is not a good idea. I guess pg_upgrade could call vacuumdb
with a PGOPTIONS flag to force a vacuum_freeze_min_age value.

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